Billy Frank Jr. was only 14 years old the first time he was arrested under a state law that prohibited net fishing by Indians ...

Austal Ship Manufacturing in Mobile christened its first steel ship on Saturday. The USNS Billy Frank Jr. will be the Navy's ...

The artist behind the bronze statue of Native American civil rights leader Billy Frank ... do better than this.” Frank, Jr., ...

Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental ...

MOBILE, Ala.—The U.S. Navy will christen the future USNS Billy Frank Jr. (T-ATS 11) during a ceremony on Saturday, March 29, at 10:00 a.m. CDT at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama.

Billy Frank Jr. was a Native ... As a member of the Nisqually tribe, Frank led a grassroots campaign in the 1960s and 1970s to secure fishing rights on the Nisqually River, located in Washington ...

sitting along the Nisqually River waiting for the fish to run.” Billy Frank Jr. was only 14 years old the first time he was arrested under a state law that prohibited net fishing by Indians in ...